200,000 Times The Size of Sun, Mini-Supermassive Black Hole Found In Mrk 462, A dwarf Galaxy
Astronomers have found a new Mini- Supermassive Black Hole in Mrk 462 galaxy and also revealed the size of it.
A black hole has been a suspicious subject for our planet and recently the new Black Hole has been founded which is 200,000 times the size of the Sun. Researchers have revealed the facts that it will throw some light on how they grow.
Highlighted Facts
- The Recent found Black Hole has been found in Mrk 462, a dwarf galaxy.
- Mrk 462 galaxy is expected to be 110 million light-years away from earth.
- The newly discovered Black Hole is known as the smallest of its kind.
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NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and its researchers have discovered a new Black Hole in Mrk 462 in a dwarf galaxy. The galaxy has only hundreds of millions of stars in comparison with our galaxy which has a few billion stars.
The black hole was heavily buried in gas and dust particles in the galaxy and it is 110 million light-years away from the earth.
NASA's Comment
NASA said related to this discovery that this is the first time when such an “Obscured” supermassive Black Hole has been found in a dwarf galaxy. The interesting fact about the dwarf galaxy is they are too small that many small instruments can’t detect them.
Scientist has developed a second technique to detect the Black Hole with the help of the search for signatures of gas heating up to millions of degrees and glowing in X-rays as it falls towards the Black Hole.
The research led by the two researchers, the Jack Parker of Dartmouth College in New Hampshire included his colleague Ryan Hickox, who also from the same college said that the Black Hole in Mrk 462 was among the smallest of its kind.
Hickox said that as this buried Balck Hole was difficult to detect than the others those are exposed. The discovery could indicate the existence of many more dwarf galaxies that has similar Black Holes. They also said that this discovery will help the scientist to answer the question that how the Black Holes are getting big in the universe so fast.
The researchers of the related discovery used the Chandra to have keen eyes in eight dwarf galaxies where the growth of the Black Hole was detected.
Mrk 462 shows the X-ray signature of a growing BlacBlackhole
